2001: A Space Odyssey

1968Stanley Kubrick149 min

Cinema

Large-format capture
Long stretches near silence

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Genre

Sci-Fi
Mystery
Adventure

Viewing evidence

Picture

Large-format capture

Large-format capture: Shot on Super Panavision 70, per Wikipedia

Sound

Long stretches near silence
The score does the plotting

Context

Presentation is part of the work
Needs a quiet room

Technical basis

Large-format capture
Published shot timings inform the attention estimate.
A wide image, with more letterboxing on a 16:9 screen.